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By Jack Bell

This season’s top goal scorer in Europe does not play in England. He does not play in Spain, France, Italy or Germany.

His name is Marc Janko and he plays for Red Bull Salzburg of the Austrian Bundesliga, making beautiful music in the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Janko has scored an incredible 30 goals so far this season for first place Salzburg and was thwarted in his bid to increase that total when Friday’s match at SK Austria Kärnten was postponed because of a snowstorm in the south of the country. And now, with the Austrian league set for its long winter break after this weekend’s games, it is possible that Janko has played his final match for Red Bull Salzburg.

Janko, a 25-year-old, 6-foot-5 striker, is at or near the top of nearly every transfer list as the January transfer period creeps closer. He has been scouted heavily by struggling Blackburn Rovers of the English Premier League.

“England is still my dream,” Janko said in an interview with the Austrian Press Agency. “There football is much more physical and quick. It is another world. Any player moving there needs some time to adjust, even top international stars. But at the end of the day quality always comes out on top and I’m confident I could manage it.”
Here is a look at Janko in action, albeit a bit on the fuzzy side:



Janko, who has played seven times for Austria’s national team, has an athletic pedigree. His mother, Eva, won a bronze medal in the javelin at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

Janko, who scored only seven goals for Salzburg the past two seasons, has blossomed playing for a new coach in Salzburg (the Dutchman Co Adriaanse replaced the Italian Giovanni Trapattoni, who left to take over as coach of Ireland’s national team). He has scored his 30 goals in only 18 matches.

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